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Fortunato Tito Arecchi
Present position: Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Firenze, and Associate Scientist,INO-CNR
Date and place of birth: 11/12/1933, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Education:
1957: PhD in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Curricular activity
1957-60: Researcher in Nuclear Electronics at CISE, Milano,
1960-62: Research Associate on Lasers, Dept. EE, Stanford University,
1962-70: Leader Research Group on Lasers at CISE Milano,
1963-70: Associate Professor of Physics, Milan University,
1969-70: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Phys., MIT;
1970-2008: Chair of Physics (1970-77:University of Pavia and 1975-2008 University of Firenze)
2008-present: Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Firenze and Associate Scientist at INO
Visiting scientist: 1968-69: IBM Res. Lab. Ruschlikon (CH);
1978 and 1985: IBM Res. Lab. San Jose, (CA);
1975-2000 : President of Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO) ,
Affiliations
Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member of: Italian Physical Society (SIF) and Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF);
Member of Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (AIPS) (Bruxelles);
Member of Academia Europaea
Areas of scientific contributions:
Cooperative effects in quantum optics
Photon statistics and laser fluctuations
Deterministic chaos in optics
Pattern formation in extended media
Complex phenomena and cognitive processes
Recent Awards
Max Born 1995 Medal of OSA
Editorial
Vice-Director: Nuovo Cimento (Italy) 1976-1998;
Editor in Chief: European Physical Journal -D (1999-2003);
Editor: Chaos ( AIP -U.S.A.);
Editorial Board: Optics Communications, (North Holland); Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos (World Scientific); J. Phys. B (IOP- U.K.);
Int. J. Nonlinear Optical Physics (World Scientific); Cognitive Processing (Springer);Chaos and Complexity Letters (NovaScience Publishers).
Formerly active as Member of: Commissions de Publications Francaises de Physique; Acta Physica Polonica
From 2000 to 2010:Member of the Scientific Committeee of the Solvay Physics Conferences
Publications
Scientific papers: more than 400.
Books:
1-Laser Handbook, vol. 1 and 2. (with E. Schulz Du Bois), North Holland 1972;
2-Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics (with R.G. Harrison), Springer 1987;
3-I simboli e la realtà,(with I. Arecchi), Jaca Book, Milano 1990;
4-Optical chaos (selected papers on) (with R.G. Harrison), SPIE Opt. Eng. Press 1994;
5-Lexicon of Complexity (with A. Farini), Firenze 1996;
6-Determinismo e Complessità, Armando,Roma2000;
7-The scientific and philosophical challenge of Complexity, RUI,Roma 2000;
8-Caos e Complessità nel Vivente, IUSS Press,Pavia, 2004;
9-Coerenza,Complessità, Creatività , S.Di Renzo,Roma2007;
also Co-Editor of several Proceedings of International Conferences or Schools.
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